SOLOMON Islands students studying at Divine Word University are calling on the government to pay their second semester allowances. This came after they are on month in class, but are still to receive their allowances. One of the students told Solomon Star that they inquired with student attaché in Port Moresby, Clair Damutalau, but she…
Forum Fisheries Agency’s (FFA) Judicial conference is underway at the FFA’s conference Centre in Honiara. The three day meeting started on Monday and was expected to end on Wednesday. Participants from nine pacific island countries attended the program, which is chaired by the Solomon Islands’ Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer. The participants included legal officers…
Chief Justice of Solomon Islands Sir Albert Palmer reiterated the importance of the Judicial conference to the governance of our ocean resources, during the opening of the program at FFA conference centre in Honiara yesterday. In his opening remarks Mr Palmer said fisheries resources plays an important role for our pacific islands people, and that…
Billions of dollars that was supposed to boost development of pacific islands countries has been lost to illegal fishing activities in our ocean, a Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Judicial conference had heard. The conference is currently underway in Honiara started on Monday and will end on Wednesday. The conference participants mostly high court judges heard…
The Office of the Parliamentary Independent group has rebutted a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC) dated Wednesday 20 July, 2016 Solomon Star issue No. 6336, that the Leader of Independent Group Hon. Dr. Derek Sikua was misleading the nation with unapprised statements concerning the DCCG peace building programmes pertaining…
MARKET vendors in Honiara and Auki have been working with UN Women and the National Disaster Management Office to inform research about the impacts of climate change on the markets and livelihoods. The Solomon Islands markets, as part of the Markets for Change project, are the first in the Pacific to have participated in the…
HONIARA residents have experienced an influx of fundraising groups during this mid-year break. From June up to now, fundraising groups have been organizing entertainments every evening at various locations in town. Most of the groups come from Malaita and are on missions to raise funds for church or community rest houses. The groups have been…
AN independent study conducted by the Forum Fisheries Agency Ministerial Review has found that the Pacific loses US$123 million in revenue from Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing (IUU). The revelation was made by Forum Fisheries Agency Director General James Movick while opening the FFA judicial conference in Honiara, Monday. “Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing continues…
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OVER one thousand people from the southern region of Malaita joined in the celebrations to mark the 13th anniversary of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) held on 24 July at the Yam Cultural Festival at Pululaha Village, on Small Malaita, Malaita Province. “We wanted to celebrate RAMSI’s ‘birthday’ with the people of…